Perhaps. But then there's stuff like this, from his time in CIN:
“You start with the head coach, and then you start with the staff on both sides of the ball,” Owens said on NFL Network’s Total Access. “Offensively, we didn't really have the coaching we needed to muster what we had on the offensive side of the ball.”
But Owens wasn’t done with head coach Marvin Lewis and his staff. Responding to NFL Network analyst Warren Sapp naming Bengals owner Mike Brown, Owens said Brown also deserves a heaping help of blame.
“I’ve made a comment about if you’re trying to win some championships, it starts from the top down,” Owens said. “[Sapp] mentioned Mike Brown; I think even before I got there, they said the owner was a little different. Obviously, I saw that.”
According to Owens, the players were good enough that the Bengals should have been a good team. But the players couldn’t do it alone.
“I think if you look at the talent we had in that locker room this year and we mustered four wins, that should let you know something is not right,” Owens said. “Throughout the year, I saw some things that really wasn’t right.”
Of course, there were reports during the season that one of the things that wasn’t right was Owens himself not being a good teammate. And there have been indications that the reason Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer wants out is that he’s sick of having bad teammates, including Owens.
But Owens says the blame for Palmer wanting out starts at the top, too.
“Obviously if you have your franchise quarterback who is supposed to be that guy for your team trying to get out of there, that’s kind of telling the organization something, and that’s telling a lot of people out there something as well,” Owens said.
Or this, below. I know it's just the Allen Wranglers in this case, and not an actual NFL team:
Terrell Owens is one of the most talented receivers the NFL has seen in the past few decades, but his ego and age will prevent him from joining up with a new team now that the Allen Wranglers of the Indoor Football League are done with him.
T.O. was cut from the team that he had part ownership of after refusing to travel for away games and missing a scheduled appearance at a local children's hospital...Owens failed to show up for a scheduled appearance at a local children’s hospital with players and coaches and the team says he planned to skip two upcoming road games.
Or this. I know this isn't a team at all, but just a selection of women he'd reportedly slept with and then potentially fathered children on:
Earlier this month Owens went on the “Dr. Phil” show to confront three mothers of children he fathered over their claims that he failed to pay child support.
Apart from those things, though...and apart from the issues he had in SF. And the issues he had in PHI. Oh, and the issues he had in Dallas. Apart from that stuff, he seems like a good guy, pretty reasonable about what it takes to build a team and get along with others, and very responsible and likely to be a man of his word.
I don't know what it is you guys are willfully missing about TO. Fantastic football player. Objectively terrible human being. If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's probably a duck.